| | 05 | -T-R--- | 10:00A-11:30A | Cupples II / L015 | Sklodowska | May 8 2018 6:00PM - 8:00PM | 13 | 13 | 0 | | Desc: | LOVE, ACTUALLY: (RE)CREATING LOVE IN CONTEMPORARY LATIN AMERICAN AND LATINO/A LITERATURE, ART, AND FILM. The class follows the overarching theme of multidimensional aspects of love as (re)created in a broad selection of 20th and 21st century Latin American and Latino/a literary works (short stories, poetry, drama), performances, films, and art. In addition to texts by authors such as Neruda, Quiroga, Bombal, Morejón, García Márquez, Onetti, Pizarnik, Ferré, Allende, Padura, Bahr, Valenzuela, García, and Obejas, among others, we will also examine a few research articles on the subject of love, blending insights from psychology, anthropology, neurochemistry, and philosophy. This engagement with interdisciplinary approaches will encourage students to seek their own insights grounded in areas beyond literature and to perceive love as a diverse human experience that encompasses a plurality of cultural expressions and complex individual relationships. |
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| 06 | -T-R--- | 2:30P-4:00P | Cupples II / L009 | Garcia Liendo | May 9 2018 3:30PM - 5:30PM | 12 | 14 | 0 | | Desc: | THE SIXTIES IN LATIN AMERICA. The Global Sixties was a time of political turmoil and cultural change: for some, an era of frustrated opportunities for social justice; for others, a continued source of nostalgia or optimism. How were the Sixties experienced in Latin America? During this tumultuous decade, internal and external forces challenged longstanding sociocultural, economic and political models, sparking pivotal debates that would shape the future of the region for decades: modernity versus revolution, counterculture versus culture industry, Latin Americanism versus the Americanization of life, public intellectuals versus emerging youth cultures, military repression versus the activism of new political actors and the politicization of urban and campesino subaltern subjects. More than 50 years later, the resulting social and cultural changes, along with some of its other outcomes-dictatorships, foreign military and economic interventions-are still being reevaluated, underscoring the significance of the decade's legacies for understanding contemporary Latin America. This course offers an exploration of the Latin American Sixties from a cultural history perspective. We will study the Latin American literary boom and the cultural market; youth cultures and countercultures (music, cinema, comics); mass culture, popular culture and neo-imperialism; the Cultural Cold War; and revolution, internationalism, and Liberation Theology. We will combine a close reading of cultural artifacts and texts, with a contextualization of Latin America within the post-1945 global order. Among the materials to be discussed are writings by José Donoso, Gabriel García Márquez, and José María Arguedas, folklore and nueva canción latinoamericana, Mafalda comics, Latin American communication studies, art interventions, pop posters, and essays by intellectuals, politicians and priests. |
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